Don Xml's Grok This

I'm not one for linking to You Tube, but how can you beat this?  Kelly Clarkson jumps on stage with the guys of Metal Skool (and her boyfriend, Sean Mackin, the lead singer of Yellowcard).  She is definitely a bit tipsy, and even takes a swig of Jack Daniels (plus some other not so Nickelodeon things).  She even sing a bit ...

The Welsh band Bullet For My Valentine is slowly becoming the new must listen to metal band.  I found out about them thru the UK’s Metal Hammer magazine (where’s my UK readers, and why haven’t you told me about these guys?).  Although this is a new metal band, in the mold of Avenged Sevenfold, you can hear the ...

Peter Provost and Steve Pavlina both have mentioned the Pandora Music Service which will allow you to create a customized streaming radio channel based on artists and songs that you enter into the system.  I have to admit that the Pandora user interface is pretty slick, but having to enter in your ...

Brad Wilson was lamenting over the lack of decent metal bands out there.  He feels a lot like me, loves the metal, but can not stand the recent trend of “Oscar the Grouch” vocals (I also call them Cookie Monster vocals).  Classic thrash metal bands like Slayer and Testament touched upon that trend, way back when, but it was ...

I’ve had a MySpace account for a while, and have a link from there to here, but I never did the inverse.  So here it is.  And I’ll add a link to it on my site.  MySpace has a “friends” list, and if you are a friend, a band I like, or a band that I give a good review, I’ll add you as a ...

If you are old enough to remember the great music scene Jersey had back in the late 80’s, then you probably remember the bands American Angel and Xenon.  Xenon had a few reunion shows over the last couple years, but if you missed them, then you definitely don’t want to miss April 30th, 2005 at Double D’s Entertainment ...

I’ve been in a musical funk for the last couple months, and haven’t been able to really get into any of the new CDs I bought over that time.  Here’s a few of what I bought, and really couldn’t get into (even though some of these are really good CDs): Lit – Lit –  Probably one of the best real ...

What’s a book review doing in my music blog?  Well this book is about the history of metal, and even though it is a well written book (and not just some fanzine type stuff), I decided to put the review here instead of my book review category.  Sound of the Beast is written by Ian Christe (who I’ve never heard of), and does ...

Anthrax We’ve Come For You All My Score: 10 out of 10 Category: Metal/Old School Metal Buy it Here I don’t give out a perfect 10 for CDs very often, even if I think it is a great release.  To be rated a 10 by me, it first and foremost has to be a perfect CD.  One average song, and it drops to a max of 9.  But, I also require a CD with ...

Overkill KillBox 13 My Score: 8 out of 10 Buy it HereUpdate 11/22/2003 - I didn’t like the original review so decided to rewrite it. Overkill are one of the few bands still remaining from the glorious New Jersey/New York metal scene from the mid to late 80’s.  I’ve been into them since their early years, and have watched ...